Dever: We want to make the Bible history. Many people think it has to be history or nothing. But there is no word for history in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, what did the biblical writers ...

Dubbed the prayerbook of the church, the Book of Psalms was first the prayerbook of Israel and the only prayerbook of Jesus. The Holy Year booklet on this topic was written by Gianfranco Cardinal Rava ...

Most translators opt for “children of Israel,” even though the term is ambiguous ... The number 40, for example, appears in the Bible over 150 times. Of these, the words 40 days and 40 nights are ...